Salvador Allende Gossens Biography

Wins election to the Senate and begins a long national parliamentary career.

Becomes President of the Senate while remaining a leading Socialist presidential figure.

Wins a plurality in the presidential election against Jorge Alessandri and Radomiro Tomic.

Is confirmed as President-elect by the full Congress after winning a plurality.

Wins confirmation by the full Congress after obtaining a plurality in the popular election.

Takes office as President of Chile after congressional confirmation of the election result.

Begins his single constitutional term as President of Chile.

Expands state ownership of banks and strategic industries during the Popular Unity government.

Signs the constitutional reform unanimously approved by Congress to nationalize the major copper mines.

Promulgates the unanimous constitutional amendment nationalizing the large copper mines.

Forms a military-civilian cabinet while confronting a prolonged national transport strike.

Dies inside La Moneda during the coup; later official investigations conclude that he took his own life.

Remains in La Moneda during the military coup that ends his government.